Electrical Wiring Advice Needed

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Hi all,

I am in the middle of installing a new kitchen and will be moving my single electric fan assisted oven.

The oven has a 13A plug on the end of the cable. I also have a gas hob with mains electric ignition which also has a 13A plug on the end of the cable. Above the hob I will also have an extractor fan which had a 13A plug but I took it off to run the cable behind the wall.

On the wall all these appliances will be placed there is a cooker connection, its not connected to an applicance, but I assume it is a 45A connection due to the thickness of the cable and the fuse in the fusebox. There is an isolation switch between the consumer unit and the connection. There is also a plug socket on the wall which is connected to the mains ringmain.

What I propose to do is either connection the oven, hob ignition and extractor to the ringmain and leave the 45A cooker connection disconnected or connect these appliances to the 45A cooker connection with or without an isolation switch.

Can anyone tell me what the best way to connect these three appliances to the mains?

Thanks
 
when you say cooker connection, i guess you mean cooker outlet? if so, is it below worktop hight? if it is, change that to a double socket, so you can plug ya oven an hob in, then change your breaker from 45 to 20amp,might even get away with a 16 as your gas hob only needs a spark. leave your isolater on the wall, so you can kill them if need be, as for you extracter, just take a spur off the ring an put it on a switched fuse spur.
hope that helps
 
when you say cooker connection, i guess you mean cooker outlet? if so, is it below worktop hight? if it is, change that to a double socket, so you can plug ya oven an hob in, then change your breaker from 45 to 20amp,might even get away with a 16 as your gas hob only needs a spark. leave your isolater on the wall, so you can kill them if need be, as for you extracter, just take a spur off the ring an put it on a switched fuse spur.
hope that helps

are you a sparky???

you should get a competant person in to do the job mate. may be costly but your wiring may be costly too!!!
 
are you a sparky???

you should get a competant person in to do the job mate. may be costly but your wiring may be costly too!!!
45 top 20 sounds logical
if he is allready using a 13amp fuse
 
imo i would connect the oven to the cooker connection as it should be
(why call it a cooker connection) as for the fan and ignition dont really matter
however ignition on 13 amp bit high aint it?

on top of all that get rid of the electric oven and go gas
seening prices are dropping :proud:
 
am i the only one to notice the oven may be a gas oven and the plug is only for the fan????
 
am i the only one to notice the oven may be a gas oven and the plug is only for the fan????

could be ? but then that would make it a gas fan assisted oven and not electric fan assisted like he mentions dave


connect all three appliances to the ringmain via individual accessible switched fused spurs
 
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imo i would connect the oven to the cooker connection as it should be
(why call it a cooker connection) as for the fan and ignition dont really matter
however ignition on 13 amp bit high aint it?

on top of all that get rid of the electric oven and go gas
seening prices are dropping :proud:


ovens these days dont need the extra power supplied from cooker connections m8, they can go straight on the ringmain.................... electric hobs are a diffrent matter though, they need more power
 
my sister in yrs gone by had a gas fridge


wow yes i can remember those, as a kid ma and pa had a gas fridge, id forgotten that, i remember when it first went in where gas board installed it the pilot light kept going out. they had to come back and move it to a different position.......foc
 
hey manu dont slate me, yes i am a sparky, fair enough i never said about RCD but the guy wants the easy way of wireing it, there is nowt wrong with using his cooker supply to feed his hob an oven off as long as the breaker is changed, it saves on cable running, etc etc, it is easy to get a RCD breaker if needed. i could be a lame arse sparky an say sorry you need a new fuse board as its not up to 17th , ho by the way your earth is too small to gas an water and your lights is not on RCD. i can go on but i wont, at the end of the day its a easy install for him, if he wants to get a spark out to do it for him it will cost

ps, i dont see a solution been offered from you MANU
 
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Thank you for all the advice offered. I have actually already replaced the lighting and ring main fuses with rcds andwill likely do the same for the cooker ring fuse.

Thanks again.
 
I have the same situation, electric oven 13amp and gas hob with electric spark etc...

I have mine wired to a 13amp isolator switch at the side of the hob....

These 13amp ovens saved me a lot of hassle getting the 45a moved round the kitchen :)
 
hey manu dont slate me, yes i am a sparky, fair enough i never said about RCD but the guy wants the easy way of wireing it, there is nowt wrong with using his cooker supply to feed his hob an oven off as long as the breaker is changed, it saves on cable running, etc etc, it is easy to get a RCD breaker if needed. i could be a lame arse sparky an say sorry you need a new fuse board as its not up to 17th , ho by the way your earth is too small to gas an water and your lights is not on RCD. i can go on but i wont, at the end of the day its a easy install for him, if he wants to get a spark out to do it for him it will cost

ps, i dont see a solution been offered from you MANU

all i asked was you a sparky so dont get on the offence, and how the fook did i slate you?
 
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